Nurses' role in medical error recovery: an integrative review

Abstract

Greater understanding of nurse characteristics and organisational factors that influence error recovery can foster the development of effective strategies to detect and correct medical errors and enable organisations to reduce negative outcomes.

Nurses’ Adherence to Patient Safety Principles: A Systematic Review

“…The findings of this review highlighted that nurses' knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes influenced their adherence to patient-safety principles. Nurses have multiple roles and central responsibility to keep patients safe in the complex healthcare environment [57,58]. The effect of personal and professional values and attitudes on the consistency of adherence to patient safety by nurses has been shown to be more important than the effect of their workloads [22].…”

Nurses’ clinical reasoning practices that support safe medication administration: An integrative review of the literature

“…Research exploring nurses’ practices, complex roles and use of clinical reasoning skills surrounding the process of medication administration is scarce (Dickson & Flynn, ; Folkmann & Rankin, ). Nonetheless, nurses use clinical reasoning skills to ensure medication administration safety as nurses critically think and engage in actions that contribute to safe patient outcomes (Dickson & Flynn, ; Eisenhauer, Hurley, & Dolan, ; Gaffney et al., ; Macdonald, ; Smeulers et al., ). Folkmann and Rankin () reported that nurses recognised the contributions to medication safety that nurses make.…”

Patient involvement for improved patient safety: A qualitative study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences

“…Registered nurses are critically important to achieve patient safety since they often have a role as coordinator of multidisciplinary care and are involved with many aspects of patient care, from providing comfort and hygiene to administering injections, updating medical records, as well as handling some therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. Several studies have stressed the importance of nurses’ role for identifying, interrupting and correcting medical adverse events (Gaffney, Hatcher, & Milligan, ) and for reducing patients’ feelings of being unsafe and vulnerable in the health care setting (Kenward, Whiffin, & Spalek, ).…”

“…Several studies have stressed the importance of nurses' role for identifying, interrupting and correcting medical adverse events (Gaffney, Hatcher, & Milligan, 2016) and for reducing patients' feelings of being unsafe and vulnerable in the health care setting (Kenward, Whiffin, & Spalek, 2017). Thus far, very few studies have investigated nurses and other healthcare professionals' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours concerning patient involvement for improved patient safety.…”